Resolutions schmesolutions

I’m such a sheep. Year after year, like everyone else, I make resolutions, and year after year, like everyone else, I forget about them by February. The problem with making resolutions is that they’re usually about things which are quite transient and fluctuating anyway; weight, family, studies, money etc. If I were going to make resolutions again this year they’d probably read something like this:

1. Graduate
2. Lose two stone
3. Replace bathroom
4. Get married
5. Blah
6. Blah
7. Blah...

*yawn* I’m bored already.

I’m not going to make resolutions this year. My life so far has taught me that if you try to make plans like that you’re only setting yourself up for misery should they fail, and they’d probably fail through no fault of your own. Other things in your life get in the way and often they just can’t be helped, it’s just the fantastic and unpredictable nature of it all.

So what I’m going to do this year is make a retrospective list of reverse-resolutions for last year. Okay I probably made that sound more complicated than it is. What I mean is that I’m going to look back over last year and write a list of things I DID achieve which weren’t necessarily planned. Here goes:

1. I completed my first OU module for five years and got what, for me, was a great result.

2. I began work on the final undergraduate module needed for my degree and as a New Year’s Eve present got my best ever mark for a TMA.

3. I helped regenerate my region of OUSA and then got voted in as Executive Committee Member.

4. I got accepted for a position as school governor at two of my old schools (not rocket science, they’ll accept almost anyone, but an achievement in my eyes since I made the effort to apply).

5. I was invited to be resident student blogger for Platform (I’m not biased, but this has to be my favourite achievement of this year!)

6. As a result of numbers 3, 4 and 5 have made some great new friends.

7. Got engaged. Yep, Gordie popped the question on Christmas Day during a stroll in the hills (not really an achievement, but great anyway).

There’s probably more, I’ve got a headache at the minute due to Pepsi withdrawal symptoms so I’m having trouble concentrating (okay okay, so I made ONE resolution: severely cut back on the Pepsi Max, four bottles a day cannot be doing my insides much good!).

I urge you all to do the same; write a list of 2010’s achievements and instead of feeling miserable about the things we didn’t do, let’s have a fantastic celebration of those we DID!

Post them up on here so we can see what wonderful things happened in 2010.